Print & Online Editor
Greater Milwaukee Area
Print & Online Editor
Greater Milwaukee Area
Editor with extensive management experience for daily newspapers, weekly magazines and Web sites. Looking to brings those skills to new media opportunities.
Management skills, strong editor with excellent AP Style knowledge, creative brainstormer who works well in groups or solo, experience working with budgets, basic HTML knowledge, experience working with marketing and advertising connected with a media outlet
(Publishing industry)
August 2004 — July 2008 (4 years )
Part of group that launched MKE, a free weekly entertainment magazine and owned by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Duties included hiring and managing a staff; guiding and editing content in print and online; collaborating with multimedia producer to develop the Web site; and working with marketing and advertising to increase brand awareness through community partnerships.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Newspapers industry)
July 1999 — August 2004 (5 years 2 months)
Coordinated coverage of the area’s arts community as well as editing copy and helping to establish visual look for two weekly arts sections.
Duties also included overseeing travel and health sections and launching a free monthly entertainment tabloid aimed at readers in their late teens and early 20s.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GCI; Newspapers industry)
July 1997 — July 1999 (2 years 1 month)
Worked full time on rotating basis on news, sports and suburban desks while current employees were trained on CCI computer editing/design system.
Promoted to sports desk in March 1998. Copy edited and designed the daily sports section, working as lead designer and slot on the desk.
Bachelor's , Journalism, English , 1992 — 1997
* Recipient of Journal Sentinel Performance Equity Award (2005)
* Second place in best features section category of Hoosier State Press Association for WeekEnd section (2003)
* Second place in best features section category of Hoosier State Press Association for health section (2002)